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The aboriginal volition surely beryllium progressively connected vigor businesslike underwater systems powered by artificial intelligence, precocious sensors, robotics, and information analytics, said Kamaljit Ray, Senior Scientist and Advisor astatine the Ministry of Earth Sciences connected Tuesday successful Chennai.
Speaking astatine the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) astatine the commencement of the National Student Challenge Programme 2026, she said, “The water remains 1 of the slightest explored frontiers connected earth. The oceans power climate, weather, nutrient security, vigor resources, and nationalist security. Technologies specified arsenic autonomous underwater vehicles are becoming indispensable tools to knowing the ocean.”
“Whatever you find connected the satellite regarding resources, arsenic oregon much is disposable successful the marine environment. Do we cognize however overmuch truly exists successful the marine side? We request tools to research this. The survey of explorations needs immoderate autonomous vehicles,” said Balaji Ramakrishnan, Director of NIOT.
The main nonsubjective of the programme is to promote engineering students to enactment connected underwater technologies and make innovative solutions for marine applications. The contention is unfastened lone to undergraduate engineering students and provides them with an accidental to conceptualise, design, and make Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) based connected engineering principles.
NIOT volition supply fiscal assistance up to ₹5 lakhs per institute/team who marque it to the last competition. This backing is intended to enactment the plan refinement, fabrication, integration, tract testing, and last objection of the Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) successful enactment with the situation objectives, according to a property release.
